“What really drives me crazy is if you go to a truck show and you see a 1950s restored Bedford or something like that, and it’s got computer cut lettering on it!” — Philip Smyth
It's all offered free of charge to broaden access, but for those that can, a suggested $10 contribution to the running costs is appreciated: https://bl.ag/tip.
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BLAG 04 is now in layout, and I'm working through final copy checks in the new expanded 80-page format.
It goes to print in a week, when this will be in colour, followed by shipping to members in December.
Visit https://bl.ag/join to sign up for the adventures in sign painting, or https://bl.ag/md20 for a special introductory offer, which includes Issue 03 in print and digital access to back issues BLAG 01 and BLAG 02.
'Brazil's Letter Openers' is a BLAG Chat with designers and #typography researchers Fátima Finizola and Fernanda Martins.
They will share their work documenting and celebrating the work of Brazil's abridores de letras (letter openers, or #signpainters). This will include an exclusive screening of the documentary film, Marajó das Letras.
A born and bred Londoner, I moved with my family to Sant Pere de Ribes in Catalonia, Spain, in 2019. I've also lived in Bristol as a student, and Cambodia as a VSO volunteer.